Art Quote by Craig Raine

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

— Rufus Wainwright

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

— Tom Wesselmann

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

— Toi Derricotte

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel…

— Henri Matisse

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike